me, an economist:

he means "i'm bored and i want to play a different game now"

I cancelled a membership thing recently. I got a response saying they would cancel it after I gave them my valuable feedback. I replied “the hell you will” hyperlinked to my state’s attorney general website. You know we are in the end stages of late capitalism because money is no longer enough.

it's fucking absurd how much time we all spend having conversations that neither the employee nor the customer want to be having because some high level corporate freak thinks it will improve customer retention by 0.04%

I give it a year, tops, until those plastic houseplants you get in IKEA come with their own app.

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

An interesting case study in how gullible the internet is. I haven’t posted anything on twitter in over a year and never will again (tweet is fake obviously). I also regularly sexualize Malevola myself and have openly said I’m completely okay with others doing so. www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc...

“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.

Former Pixar employee u/PixelatedRonin fires back at chief creative officer Pete Docter on Reddit over claims on LGBT storyline cut from 'Elio' (2025):

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

Sorry. Philosophical disagreement. This is the “don’t blame guns, they’re just tools” argument all over again, and frankly as a gun person, I’m over it. LLM companies are a net drain on society, from lost jobs, ecological damage, art and educational theft, and now faulty data being trusted to bomb

Would they have double tapped an elementary school without Claude? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe a human would have checked the data. They wouldn’t have had a layer of plausible deniability. The AI is a search engine and pattern recognition tool, and it doesn’t think or reason.

Watched Wake Up Dead Man again with my parents tonight, caught a bunch of little touches and foreshadowing I couldn’t possibly have noticed the first time, and I adore what a little love letter the movie is to the detective story genre

once shonen anime fans learn that Indian blockbusters are just pure hype and aura moments for 3 hours at a time we’re gonna start seeing Prabhas and Yash shirts at spencers gifts

Both these posts demonstrating the profound difference between making art and making content

Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:

Despite the algorithmic parts, we live in an era of unrivaled connectivity and community when we have already made those bonds. It is possible to call a great of people in a great deal of places and have a clear conversation or share or receive data. The enemy wants to get in the way of you doing so

Establishment Democrats think they can pay lip service to "affordability" without seriously challenging corporate power, and everyone, everywhere, sees through it

I don't see how any of this is paradoxical

you could ask the same question with regards to a calculator, a chess program, etc. a rock, even

keeping my dad company at Lowe’s and I can’t tell if this is meant to be a sales pitch or a warning to staff

if the US doesn't want its military assets attacked maybe they should stop starting wars & fuck off back to their own borders

it feels strange how 'Iran destroys enemy military equipment' is being treated as both worse and more notable than 'USA destroys a school with children inside' by a bunch of politicians and some media

Our current administration regards anyone living in the gulf region as barbarian heathen warlords ready to drink the blood of delicately ravished white women. Meanwhile, those of us who paid attention in class are like “this is where math was born” and “the root name of ‘assassin’ traces back to

post about how safe Dubai is or we’ll give you the khashoggi special

This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

drooping "i told you so" at a funeral is unimaginably gauche

harris was also wrong about how to beat trump iirc. kinda the most important test of each of their careers. both wrong. worse for harris because she went second and still lost

clinton's plan to beat trump was to elevate him above the rest of the republican field and then coast to an easy victory. i don't think she was right about that

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

When I said I wanted Gen Z to change the world, I did not mean these two clowns, and I did not mean this

My 18,000 word pieces - The Enshittifinancial Crisis and The Case Against Generative AI - are some of my most popular pieces I’ve ever written. Give them a table of contents and people will read whatever

Broke: stop anthropomorphizing LLMs Woke: name LLMs after women to make men more skeptical of their outputs

Oil execs: Renewable are so unreliable! What do you do when its night or the wind isn't blowing? *one week of air war later* Oil execs: gas ran out sorry

I'm sorry, but what the ACTUAL fuck?

Screaming

The women in this administration will always be used as scapegoats and canon fodder. I think Pam Bondi is next, they’ll bury her along with the Epstein Files. You cannot have power as a woman under misogynists, you can never be one of them.

the US has already lost in iran, their only hope was iran collapsing in a day or two, and it didn't, so now their only options are to declare victory & slink away or try to put boots on the ground & lose way harder

That's wild. I guess don't use @proton.me anymore

nobody hates bluesky users more than bluesky staff

literally DOZENS of jobs!

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

so many problems both like Societally Big and literal just person-to-person interaction for me are rooted in the other person being deeply uncurious

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

Haha oh wow